Political leaders from both the White House and Congress are offering up ways to improve the Senior Executive Service. There’s the mundane — the White House is launching a candidate development program. And the punitive — legislation that would make it easier to fire SES members when things go wrong. Now in our special report, “Fixing the SES,” we ask: Is it actually broken? Jeri Buchholz is an SES member and chief human capital officer at NASA. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, she told Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp that the SES has its faults but is essential to the government. Read Emily’s related story.

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